On the Seven Towers

Time goes back to a few days ago, in the Mage Prison of Hewan New City.

It has been more than a day since Xiao Chen and Tang Feng came here, but apart from the guards who delivered meals, no one has come to see them, nor have they been interrogated or questioned.

Apart from trying to practice, the two of them just read books and daydreamed, and their days were extremely boring.

"Something is not right. Have we been abandoned?" Tang Feng put down a novel in his hand and said, "Can you feel that now?"

Xiao Chen shook his head slightly.

The one Tang Feng was talking about was Xiao Chen's own clone. After they arrived at Hewan New City the night before, Xiao Chen took advantage of Jiang Yitian's inattention and projected his own clone through a wall when passing a house.

According to Xiao Chen's inference, after they were locked up, those people would naturally take action. No matter what they did outside, a clone walking outside could observe their every move, react, and pass this information to him in time.

But he didn't expect that he would be locked up in the Mage Prison. The Mage Prison suppressed his mental power, and naturally suppressed his connection with his clone. He could only vaguely feel the existence of the clone now, but could not transmit any information.

"It's not too long to leave us alone for more than a day, be patient. Jiang Yitian and the others don't come to find us, and the other people in the committee won't let us be locked up here." Xiao Chen said.

"The key is that I can't do anything, and I feel like I'm out. Here and outside are two isolated worlds." Tang Feng said.

"Two worlds?" Xiao Chen suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, "I want to try to enter meditation, you help me watch."

"Hey? Meditation now?" Tang Feng didn't understand what tricks Xiao Chen was playing.

Xiao Chen sat cross-legged in the room and began to prepare to use the dream travel method to enter that parallel world. No one could have imagined that his path to another world was not anywhere, but in his consciousness.

Through continuous practice, Xiao Chen has gradually mastered the trick of traveling between the two worlds, and no longer needs to take a chance or expect some kind of blessing to come to his heart to perceive that world. Even if he continued to meditate for a period of time, he could break through the barriers of the world and maintain communication with his own consciousness in another world.

He fixed the connection point between the two worlds in his meditation world and made a door in his seaside villa.

This door is located in a room on the third floor of the villa. It looks no different from an ordinary door, but no one in his meditation world can see the existence of this door except Xiao Chen himself. Including Tashia and the others. And even Xiao Chen needs to concentrate his energy to hold the handle of the door and open it.

And now Xiao Chen is standing in front of the door. Kona and Elena are both injured and sleeping. Tashia also consumed too much energy in the last battle. Now only Xiaobai is swimming around him.

Xiao Chen touched its head: "Take good care of them. If they wake up, let them wait for me patiently."

Xiaobai nodded very humanely in the air, then circled in the air and watched Xiao Chen's movements.

Xiao Chen focused his mind on the door handle, then stretched out his hand and opened the door. Behind the door was a black world with a little light, which looked like a starry sky. When Xiao Chen walked into the door, his consciousness seemed to have traveled through a time and space tunnel. Countless murmuring sounds and bizarre colors occupied his senses. After an unknown period of time, all these perceptions disappeared, and the world around him became clear again. Various meaningful noisy sounds began to enter his ears, and his vision became concentrated. The first thing he saw was the familiar and reassuring pretty face.

This is a hot pot restaurant. Luo Ling, who was sitting opposite him, was holding a piece of mutton with chopsticks and preparing to put it in the pot. When Xiao Chen arrived, she seemed to have a feeling. The chopsticks paused in the air, and then put the mutton into the pot.

"See you again." Luo Ling's lips curled slightly, put the mutton on the plate, dipped it in the sauce, blew twice, and then put it in her mouth.

"Sorry to disturb your leisure time." Xiao Chen found that he was also holding chopsticks, but a meatball on the chopsticks had fallen on the table. He raised his eyes and the meatball jumped into the pot by itself.

"It's not really a disturbance." Luo Ling narrowed her eyes, looked at his face carefully, and asked, "Are you still working overtime tonight?"

"No, I've already published one yesterday, and I have a lot of ideas for the next one. Let me take a breath today." Xiao Chen said these words almost without thinking, which surprised him, "This is..."

He thought carefully, and it seemed that a lot of things naturally appeared in his mind. These things did not suddenly rush into his mind, but seemed to have been there. It's like there is a big room with things piled up at both ends, but there is a curtain in the middle that divides the room into two halves. The current state is just that someone gently puts away the curtain. Let the things in the room return to one place, without any abruptness or strangeness, as if everything should be like this.

"Your... fusion is also one step closer, getting closer and closer to the state of two-in-one." Luo Ling seemed very calm, as if she had known about this for a long time. "Before, when you came here, he would always fall into a coma and then wake up, but now, you just dazed for a moment and loosened the chopsticks in your hand."

"You know so much, have you and her reached this state?" Xiao Chen supported his forehead with his hand, and a feeling of confusion and worry unconsciously emerged in his heart.

"We, no, I should walk in front of you. I am having dinner with you now, and at the same time, I am also outside the Black Wood Pass, observing the whereabouts of the imperialists. Such fusion happens almost every day, and I seem to have adapted to the feeling that this me and that me are all me." Luo Ling said.

Seeing Xiao Chen silent, she immediately understood what he was struggling with: "Are you still worried about losing yourself?"

"So you know." Xiao Chen nodded and said, "What I mean is that although you and she have very similar experiences, later because of the relationship of crossing, you actually took different paths and became different people. Don't you think one you is swallowed by the other you? Just like me, because of the experience, my personality has also changed. He is more gentle and I am more cold. If we merge into one person, who is the real Xiao Chen?"